Licklider’s concept of “Open Culture” is one way of looking at the net. He suggests that the Internet has no rules as to “how data flows and where.” For instance someone on the Internet could portray their personality in a completely different manner to who they are in real life. The Internet thus allows people to create a façade and multiple identities, more worryingly pedophiles often pretend to be younger children online, in order to lure unsuspecting and innocent children. Therefore the Internet sadly “will provide one more means to the child abusers and exploiters”(Amaldo, 2001: 3). New media as we know is a virtual reality thus any reality in real life we cannot be sure of within the Internet world.
Although it appears there are no rules to “how” data flows and “where,” this concept made by Licklider isn’t necessarily true. Despite choosing to join networking sites such as Facebook, MSN and MySpace, these networks do have some level of impact on how we Interact. This is dependent up on how chat rooms such Facebook are structured and the regulations that they enforce.
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how do you feel about the level of security on places like facebook? i was reading an article by janet street porter in the daily mail, saying that facebook was just for people to make themselves sound more interesting and have nothing better to do...
ReplyDeletei dont really agree with this though. most people use facebook in the correct way and only accept people as 'friends' that that actually know in real life- i would never add somebody i didn't know!
Chatrooms-fair enough, can be dangerous, but i think the hype with facebook and stuff is a big over the top.
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